- Usage in publication:
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- Wood Canyon formation*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Pg. 461-472. Wood Canyon formation. Thin-bedded quartzitic sandstones, sandy shales, and, near top, a few limestone beds. Cross-bedding, ripple marks, and sun cracks common. Thickness 2,100 feet. Lower Cambrian fossils about 150 feet below top. Grades into underlying Stirling quartzite and is unconformably overlain by Bright Angel shale. Age is Early Cambrian.
Named from exposures in Wood Canyon, about 4 mi south of Crystal Springs, on west side of Spring Mountains, Clark Co., southeastern NV.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 2365).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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